The Civil Registration Amendment Act 2012 is the most overtly discriminatory law that has been passed since Atheist Ireland was founded. Atheist Ireland has raised the religious discrimination in the Civil Registration Amendment Act 2012 in our Submission to the UN Human Rights committee. Ireland...
Atheist Ireland has sent a Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee. Ireland is up before the Committee in October for the pre-session under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In our submission we raised the issue of freedom of belief when seeking...
In Ireland the Charities Act and Tax law discriminates against atheists, humanists and secularisits. In our Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee Atheist Ireland have requested that the Committee ask the Irish state – “Question: Will the state party amend the Charities Act under...
Publicly funded schools are obliged to use their existing funding to supervise students outside the religious instruction class. The recent Legal Opinion that Atheist Ireland obtained confirms that schools cannot refuse to supervise children outside the religious instruction class on the basis that they do...
Atheist Ireland has obtained a legal opinion from Barrister James Kane on the Constitutional right to not attend religious instruction under Article 44.2.4. The Irish Times has reported on it here. You can read the full Legal Opinion here. The legal opinion covers the right...
Where can you turn if your State denies you your human rights? Here is an overview of the main United Nations human rights treaties. Atheist Ireland uses these treaties to advocate for human rights in the areas of freedom of conscience and expression, and separation...
The state Religious Education course developed by the NCCA disrespects atheists and humanists. The course was recently updated and introduced into second-level schools in September 2019. Despite superficial changes, the updated version is no better than the previous one. It is not an objective course...
Atheist Ireland has had many successes since we were founded in 2008. We have normalised the use of the word atheism, and we have successfully lobbied to change the constitution and several laws. We continue to campaign to bring about a secular Constitution, parliament, laws,...
Grania Spingies, who died suddenly this month last year, would have been fifty today. She was a founding member and first secretary of Atheist Ireland, and a contributor to Jerry Coyne’s website Why Evolution is True. Grania was an intelligent and organised activist, a rational...
This is Atheist Ireland’s initial response to the proposed Programme for Government agreed jointly by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and the Green Party. While it is weak on explicit secular policies, some of its commitments would lead to secular specifics if they are implemented while...